FarmVille 2 Aporkalypse: Where Are The Pigs In Zynga’s New Social Gaming Cash-Cow?

FarmVille 2 is Zynga’s second go at milking as much filthy lucre from its farm-based social gaming franchise as possible. There’s no mystery to its existence. The franchise has been a runaway hit for years, and continues to be the top revenue-generating game for the company — despite being more weather-beaten cockerel than spring chicken these days (user numbers have certainly declined since its 2009/2010 heyday).

We’re not exhaustive players of FarmVille 2 — so we’re prepared to admit we might be wrong. We’ve reached out to Zynga to ask about the FarmVille 2 Aporkalypse, as we’re terming it (either that or ‘Piggygate’), and will update when we hear back.

This is not the first time we’ve noticed something missing from one of Zynga’s realities. Last year disappearing wedding chapels in CityVille caught our eye. In that instance the chapels had actually appeared in the game before undergoing a not-so-subtle transformation into anodyne ‘wedding halls’ (“with two gold ring things that somehow makes me think only of McDonald’s”, as TC founder Michael Arrington put it.)

An alternative wildcard theory could be that Rovio’s Angry Birds — and now also Bad Piggies — have all but trademarked porcine gaming characters. You could say Rovio’s smug, thieving pigs are hogging all the limelight right now…